Bamboozled!

This film is full of racism and crazy jokes. I love Spike Lee films and how he make the viewer stop and think about what is really going on. Bamboozled is a powerful, hard-hitting satire within a satire of both the historical and modern stereotypical portrayal of black Americans in mass media. It looks at how, in the film, a black, Harvard-educated television writer, Pierre Delacroix develops an idea for the rebirth of a traditional minstrel show, expecting that the outcry from this racist throwback will cause him to be fired, thus negating and freeing him from his contract. It discusses how the ironic and fateful twist in the plan is that it backfires and how the show goes into production and the public loves it. Rather than recognizing the show as satire, all the negative, demeaning stereotypes are embraced and mimicked by the masses. A chaotic series of events ensues, culminating in the tragic deaths of several of the characters.